"When I think of the people who have been there, and the people I grew up admiring - the likes of Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard... it's just incredible that I'm in the same sort of club."
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After being inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4160837.stm
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